Dear Sage developers, I tried to build Sage-3.4 on my intel macbook (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I have Xcode 2.5 installed and gcc-4.0.1. I downloaded the sage-3.4.tar, untarred it and ran make. I have macports installed so changed the PATH to remove anything from /opt. I also renamed /opt to something else in one attempt but both failed with the same error:
------------- [...] Sleeping for three seconds before testing python Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/local/lib/python2.5/md5.py", line 6, in <module> from hashlib import md5 File "/Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 133, in <module> md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5') File "/Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line 60, in __get_builtin_constructor import _md5 ImportError: No module named _md5 md5 module failed to import [...] sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.5.2.p9 Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel explaining the problem and send the relevant part of of /Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/install.log. Describe your computer, operating system, etc. ----------------- Searching the lists for this gave me this: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e2fcb3455dfa25e9?pli=1 which isn't very helpful. After spending a little while figuring out what is wrong I realize that I've done something a little non-standard that broke things. I have a default ~/.pydistutils.cfg which reads like so: [install] install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages install_scripts = ~/usr/bin I completely forgot about this and my install logs indicated a large number of files being installed in the `install_lib` directory. So moving this .pydistutils.cfg out of the way helped resolve the problem and the build went well. I think this should be documented somewhere so others don't fall into the same trap. Thanks. cheers, prabhu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---